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Robert M. Suryan is affiliated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with significant contributions to earth and planetary sciences. The main subfields of their work include global and planetary change, ecology, oceanography, nature and landscape conservation, and atmospheric science.

Their central research topics cover marine and fisheries research, fish ecology and management studies, marine animal studies, isotope analysis in ecology, climate variability and models, avian ecology and behavior, and marine and coastal plant biology.

Frequent coauthors of Robert M. Suryan include Heather A. Coletti, Mayumi L. Arimitsu, Mandy R. Lindeberg, Daniel H. Monson, and Katrin Iken.

They have published in various venues, with multiple papers appearing in Open Access Government, Deep Sea Research Part II Topical Studies in Oceanography, Frontiers in Marine Science, PLoS ONE, and Scientific Reports.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Robert M. Suryan are:

  • Ecosystem response persists after a prolonged marine heatwave, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Extreme mortality and reproductive failure of common murres resulting from the northeast Pacific marine heatwave of 2014-2016, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Heatwave-induced synchrony within forage fish portfolio disrupts energy flow to top pelagic predators, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • Global political responsibility for the conservation of albatrosses and large petrels, 2021, Science Advances
  • Changes in Rocky Intertidal Community Structure During a Marine Heatwave in the Northern Gulf of Alaska, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science

Best Publications

  • Extreme mortality and reproductive failure of common murres resulting from the northeast Pacific marine heatwave of 2014-2016.

    John F. Piatt;Julia K. Parrish;Heather M. Renner;Sarah K. Schoen

  • Prey Patch Patterns Predict Habitat Use by Top Marine Predators with Diverse Foraging Strategies

    Kelly J. Benoit-Bird;Brian C. Battaile;Scott A. Heppell;Brian Hoover

  • Ecosystem response persists after a prolonged marine heatwave.

    Robert M. Suryan;Mayumi L. Arimitsu;Heather A. Coletti;Russell R. Hopcroft

  • Foraging destinations and marine habitat use of short-tailed albatrosses: A multi-scale approach using first-passage time analysis

    Robert M. Suryan;Fumio Sato;Gregory R. Balogh;K. David Hyrenbach;K. David Hyrenbach

  • Short-term fluctuations in forage fish availability and the effect on prey selection and brood-rearing in the black-legged kittiwake Rissa tridactyla

    Robert M. Suryan;David B. Irons;Max Kaufman;Jeb Benson

  • State of the California Current 2014-15: Impacts of the Warm-Water "Blob"

    Andrew W. Leising;Isaac D. Schroeder;Steven J. Bograd;Jeffrey Abell

  • PREY RESOURCES, COMPETITION, AND GEOGRAPHIC STRUCTURE OF KITTIWAKE COLONIES IN PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND

    David G. Ainley;R. Glenn Ford;Evelyn D. Brown;Robert M. Suryan

  • Effects of colony relocation on diet and productivity of Caspian terns

    Daniel D. Roby;Ken Collis;Donald E. Lyons;David P. Craig

  • Heatwave-induced synchrony within forage fish portfolio disrupts energy flow to top pelagic predators.

    Mayumi L. Arimitsu;John F. Piatt;Scott Hatch;Robert M. Suryan

  • PREY SWITCHING AND VARIABLE FORAGING STRATEGIES OF BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES AND THE EFFECT ON REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS

    Robert M. Suryan;David B. Irons;Jeb Benson

  • New approach for using remotely sensed chlorophyll a to identify seabird hotspots

    Robert M. Suryan;Jarrod A. Santora;William J. Sydeman

  • TRACKING HARBOR SEALS (PHOCA VITULINA RICHARDSI) TO DETERMINE DIVE BEHAVIOR, FORAGING ACTIVITY, AND HAUL‐OUT SITE USE

    Robert M. Suryan;James T. Harvey

  • State of the California current 2015-16: Comparisons with the 1997-98 el niÑo

    S McClatchie;R Goericke;A Leising;TD Auth

  • Scales and mechanisms of marine hotspot formation

    Elliott L. Hazen;Robert M. Suryan;Jarrod A. Santora;Steven J. Bograd

  • Trophic Mass-Balance Model of Alaska's Prince William Sound Ecosystem, for the Post-Spill Period 1994-1996

    T. A. Okey;D. Pauly;J. Allen;P. Anderson

  • Wind, waves, and wing loading: morphological specialization may limit range expansion of endangered albatrosses.

    Robert M. Suryan;David J. Anderson;Scott A. Shaffer;Daniel D. Roby

  • Linking predators to seasonality of upwelling: Using food web indicators and path analysis to infer trophic connections

    Sarah Ann Thompson;William J. Sydeman;Jarrod A. Santora;Bryan Andrew Black

  • Site-specific effects on productivity of an upper trophic-level marine predator: Bottom-up, top-down, and mismatch effects on reproduction in a colonial seabird

    Robert M. Suryan;David B. Irons;Evelyn D. Brown;Patrick G.R. Jodice

  • Variability in reactions of Pacific harbor seals, Phoca vitulina richardsi, to disturbance

    Robert M. Suryan;James T. Harvey

  • Assessing the nutritional stress hypothesis: relative influence of diet quantity and quality on seabird productivity

    Patrick G. R. Jodice;Daniel D. Roby;Kathy R. Turco;Robert M. Suryan

  • Global political responsibility for the conservation of albatrosses and large petrels

    Martin Beal;Martin Beal;Maria P. Dias;Maria P. Dias;Richard A. Phillips;Steffen Oppel

  • COLONY AND POPULATION DYNAMICS OF BLACK-LEGGED KITTIWAKES IN A HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENT

    Robert M. Suryan;David B. Irons

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel D. Roby
Daniel D. Roby Oregon State University
Steven J. Bograd
Steven J. Bograd National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
William T. Peterson
William T. Peterson National Marine Fisheries Service
William J. Sydeman
William J. Sydeman Farallon Institute
Scott A. Shaffer
Scott A. Shaffer San Jose State University
Francisco P. Chavez
Francisco P. Chavez Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
John C. Field
John C. Field National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Ralf Goericke
Ralf Goericke Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Richard D. Brodeur
Richard D. Brodeur Oregon State University
John A. Hildebrand
John A. Hildebrand University of California, San Diego

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